News Room : Booker prize winner Shehan Karunathilake responds to allegations...
Sri Lankan author and Booker prize winner Shehan Karunathilake has responded to plagiarism allegations levelled by local journalist and Attorney Rajpal Abeynayake.
Abeynayake has claimed...
News Room : First Monkeypox case reported in Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka’s first case of monkeypox has been reported after an arrival from Dubai was detected as having been infected with the virus. The...
News Room : SLPP rebels ask EC to set process in...
question delay in seeking required funding
By Shamindra Ferdinando
Prof. G.L.Peiris yesterday (03) said that if Local Government polls were to...
News Room : Environmentalists: All official statistics on elephants bogus
By Rathindra Kuruwita
Over 3,400 elephants have been killed since 2011, the last elephant census in the country, and the official elephant population figures are...
News Room : Imran Khan injured in shooting
Imran Khan, the former prime minister of Pakistan sustained a bullet injury in his leg after shots were fired at a rally in Gujranwala,...
News Room : Unpredictable Pakistan stun Proteas – The Island
British police officers deployed in Qatar for the World Cup will act as “cultural interpreters” between fans and local law enforcement, says Chief Constable...
News Room : About 10,909 bowser loads of diesel required for...
question delay in seeking required funding
By Shamindra Ferdinando
Prof. G.L.Peiris yesterday (03) said that if Local Government polls were to...
News Room : Prez asks Parliament to get its act together
President Ranil Wickremesinghe has, in a letter to Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena, said that Parliament has not made satisfactory progress in making far-reaching systematic...
News Room : Dr. Pethiyagoda blames Lanka’s woes on rulers, bureaucrats...
By: M. A. Kaleel
Sri Lanka could go bankrupt again and again in the years to come like Argentina, Dr. Rohan Pethiyagoda, one of Sri...
News Room : Protests and economy
Friday 4th November, 2022
Sri Lankan business leaders made a fervent appeal to the Opposition and trade unions ahead of Wednesday’s protest march, but it...